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Bubblegum Surrealism by Canadian Pop Surrealist Painter Stephen Gibb

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Bubblegum Surrealism

Dopamine – oil on panel, 2016


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Here we go round the prickly apple at 5 o’clock in the morning – Stephen Gibb, oil on panel, 2017

2023
Pop surrealism painting of confusion
crazy pop surrealism jelly head with characters playing
pop surrealism painting of bizarre carnival
pop surrealism image
seven deadly sins painting, pop surrealism, neuroplasticity


2022
pop surrealism hierarchy of needs
surreal painting of torture and resilience
pop surrealism grey goo
pop surrealism fool
pop surrealism meets psychology
pop surrealism inside the box
pop-surrealism-stephen-gibb-million-light-years
dynamite
surrealism mental health
pop surrealism memory
pop surrealism Stephen Gibb
pop-surrealism-stephen-gibb-Christmas
pop surrealism sick planet
pop surrealism, extinction
pop surrealism chicken-egg dilemma
truth lies surrealism


2021
clowns and others surround the king of trash
mkultra brainwashing pop surrealism
pop surrealism vaccination
pop surrealism friction
stephen gibb surrealism reckoning
surreal happy landscape
pop surrealism waterscape
pop surrealism cookie
dissolve pop surrealism stephen gibb
lowbrow pop surrealism happy face
surrealism greed desire
rust allegory
pop surrealism melt
Pop Surrealism Coffee
Pop Surrealism Broccoli
Pop Surrealism Peanut butter
Pop Surrealism Pizza


2020
Surrealism
chocolate pop surrealism
froze
killing
potato-allegory
sacred-profane
lava
party
Canadian Pop Surrealism Candy Apple
Canadian pop surrealism - garbage man
pop surrealism pandemic
pop surrealism circus
Pop Surrealist ice cream
green pop surrealism
Canadian artist Stephen Gibb
Hope-Tala-girl-eats-sun
album art
pop surrealism moonage daydream
SOLD — jelly-head-green
jelly-head-orange
orange-jelly-head-brain


2019
contemporary art
canadian painter
surrealism crazy art
creepy cool art
surreal art
surreal painting
pop surreal art
surrealism art
bubblegum surrealism
Canadian surrealism
pop surrealism fun house
contorted2
jelly
gobsmacked
yellow-face
red-face
blue-face


2018
mind blowing art canadian painter
time-idioms
Canadian painter
green-crazy-face
lord-of-flies
milk-shake
red-dot-smile
peanut butter
fossil
manicule1
bread-5
bread-6
bread-7
bread-8
bread-9
bread-10
bread-11
bread-12
bread-13
bread-14
bread-15
bread-16
bread-17
bread-18
apes


2017
hollow man, apples, humpty dumpty
maple-syrup
poutine
insane-bolt
frog-prince
pancake
crazy
green-face
moon
laughing-at-death
butter-tart
nanaimo
punch
bread-1
bread-2
bread-3_0
bread-4


2016
3 blind mice hold up clown, Humpty Dumpty steals the crown
orange
giant head screams at Humpty Dumpty
clock on a block of ice
chocolate chip cookie
dorito with cheesy smile
peanut butter on bread
donut
popsicle
PB Cup
dopamine monster consuming junk food
bubble


2015
If I blow your mind
auto pilot
Laugh!.jpg
bad_apple!.jpg
self destruction
head full of green goo, essence
melting-dali
porpoise, clock in the sky chases Humpty Dumpty
headless pinocchio, Humpty Dumpty rides praying mantis
candy
toxic personality
Magica Sexualis
spinning plates, Humpty Dumpty runs for his life
rat king
the-politician


2014
brick
Humpty Dumpty rides a chicken
crystal
eat
emperor
flamingmoon
gladys2
gummy bear pop surrealism
heavythoughts
humpty2
humptypoop
icarus
jung
log
nostone
security
skyface
sourdough
timemarches
timestress
unicorn
krankus_0
rockpaper_0


2013
angrycake
anvil
arrowfish
carrot
chocodoor
electriccheese
fakecake
hell handbasket pop surrealism
happypie
pez
pigman_0
soup
whitebread


2012
angerbear
boiledinoil
circus
envy
gluttony
godpiece
hellfreezes
kang
lambskin
legal
lustcow
manfrombangor
manfromcaphorn
manfromdunluce
manfromthesouth
oldpersonhabits-jpg
pickleboy-jpg
pridehorse
princeprints
slothgoat
timetested
walrus


2011
chance
chickenegg
colonel
dali-java
fate
fire-clock
freudelephant
godfather
infinite
layerpostits
reddodo
theatre
timedesicrates
white-stripes-music-video-art-show


2010
alfred
auntie-j
bettyc
crimson
dont-care-bear
dutchess
heman
hoarder
humptypoverty
ironman
tweedle2
twiggy
venus-envy
walrus
yonghy
ideathief


Bubblegum surrealism of Stephen Gibb


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Index of paintings by Stephen Gibb 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

hollow man, apples, humpty dumpty
maple-syrup
poutine
insane-bolt
frog-prince
pancake
crazy
green-face
moon
laughing-at-death
butter-tart
nanaimo
punch
bread-1
bread-2
bread-3_0
bread-4

Bubblegum Surrealism: Stephen Gibb – Artist Statement
(Or, at least a feeble attempt to excuse my behaviour to those present with good taste)
My artwork weaves an eclectic tapestry of cultural and social influences. At one moment it may make a
single-punch-line comment on pop culture while the next it may construct a complex and playful diorama
probing into the outer perimeters of human nature.
My work is often categorized as pop surrealism but I’d begrudgingly prefer to tag it as existential editorial
cartoon realism, just because it sounds more intelligent and funny at the same time. The work holds
a certain reverence and faithfulness to reality mimicry but leans away enough to fall in the shadow of the
“uncanny valley*”, the area where the mind is unsettled by what looks real enough but couldn’t possible
be. It is in this realm, theoretically, that the mind’s gamma waves are super-stimulated and brain activity
resembles fireworks. I resolve that this accounts for the broad reactions my work garners from observers,
that ranges from contemptuous dismissal to enthusiastic exuberance. We are all wired differently.
The medium is the method, which has been a faithful deployment of oil painting and traditional oil painting
techniques, such as glazing and the occasional dalliance into chiaroscuro. The richness achieved
by layers of thinned oil paint on MDF panels always adds an interesting luminous quality to the final
piece.
My direction as of late has been to devote more to composing on the panels rather than in pre-sketches.
I’m intrigued by the more spontaneous and gratifying results of ideas presenting themselves in the process
rather than in the planning, hence the falloff in the recent output of sketches. Often a core image or
concept dictates subliminally as to how the composition manifests itself.
see stephengibb.com for more gallery images
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